Every garden is unique with a multitude of choices in soils,
plants and themes. Finding your garden theme is as easy
as seeing what brings a smile to your face.
- Teresa Watkins, Gardening With Soul

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Gotta Dig

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown

I got to dig yesterday!

Warm temperatures brought me outside to work on some landscaping. Fixing edging, rocks, blocks (you get the idea). What I realized was how much I missed being outdoors. Still not warm enough for planting but on a positive spin this gives us gardening lovers time to fix, plan and most importantly not work ourselves to the bone trying to get everything done. You can ease back into it and out of hibernation from winter.

I almost thought I was going to have a cabin fever breakdown. Luckily I think I'll make it through.

I noticed signs of spring with crocus, tulips and even some lilly's poking their way out of the dirt towards the sun. I wish I had some pictures, my camera isn't working right now, but I am working on that and will post some later, I just had to post today and share my excitement. In the meantime, here are some pictures from last year's garden.

2 comments:

Karen, I can imagine how happy you were after digging in the garden. I spent all day out there today, even thought we had occasional drizzle and I had the invariable runny nose due to cold weather and rain.

About Me

My name is Karen, and I'm a plantaholic. I started this blog to share the journey of my addiction. I think I may have inherited a plantholic gene from my family because I didn't show any interest when I was a child so I didn't learn from my mother or grandmother, although, I remember them always being out in their garden. My mother did can vegetables but all I thought was yuck! My grandmother would grow rhubarb and make rhubarb pie, and my grandfather was a farmer. He retired from farming when I was about 5 years old but the only thing I remember about the farm was riding with him on the tractor. He did love bird watching and showing me the different birds at the feeder.
..... Hmmm maybe it is passed along in the genes.

Gardening Definition of the Day

Plant your flowers, vegetables etc, work the nutrients in your soil. Layer wet newspapers around the plants overlapping as you go. Cover with mulch and forget about the weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.